Monday, July 25, 2016

Most bochurim who ever opened a קובץ שיעורים, even if only by mistake, couldn't help but read the fascinating תולדות, or Hakdomoh, written by his son, the late Reb Simcha Wasserman. The story of the passing of Reb Elchonon הי"ד al kiddush haShem is one that is better than most mussar seforim, so to speak. If you haven't yet, take a few moments in the future to do so. With him in the Ghetto, and maybe also in the same hiding place, was the Mashgiach of Slabodka, Harav Avrohom Grodzinski, הי"ד, brother in lw of Reb Yaakov Kamenetzki; they were both married to daughters of Reb Bere Hirsh Heller. Reb Avrohom was not taken to be killed that day, being that he was hiding in the attic. His son Reb Yitzchok, zol gezunt zein, recounts the story of what happened on that terrible day. Yud Aleph Tammuz marks 75 years since REW was murdered.From the Hebrew Yated Ne'eman.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Reb Meir Blau was the son of the הרב חיים משה יהודה הכהן בלוי - the מו"ל of the many Sifrei Rishonim. Reb Moshe Blau was a Mirrer Talmid, but he was also a brother-in-law of the Rebbe's mazkir, HaRav Chodakov. The latter was the one who was mekarev RMYHB to the Rebbe. Reb Meir wanted every Jew to know about the Rebbe, but there was one problem: The Rebbe could only reach so many people. 770 could only hold so many people. So he harnessed the power of the day, newspaper and Radio, and did all he could to let people know about the treasure to be found at 770. Seems like out of his own pocket. He also provided busing to some farbrengens, and later created the Crown Heights Hotline, which to many of us was the lifeline to 770 back in the day. You might say that it takes a Litvak/Yekke like Rabbi Blau to recognize what the Rebbe was and the need to "share" it with the rest of the world. If I may be so bold as to say that the Russians wanted the Rebbe all to themselves. They did n't want o share with "outsiders."

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Reb Dovid Eidelman was a legend, to use an overused cliche. Not a legend, like, say, the director of Camp Agudah, but a real legend. A man who was on shlichus in a college town in Massachusetts for close to 70 years, until his dying day, to use a cliche. But there were times when he traveled a bit. Maybe for family simchos or such occasions. But he was also a master farbrenger and storyteller. I had the zechus to hear him several times back in the day. Born in Baltimore and educated in Tomchei Tmimim in NY, Reb Dovid could relate to American boys without losing the old world flair that he consumed in Lubavitch. Yehi Zichro Boruch.

Monday, July 18, 2016

I may have said this in the past, but I remember hearing from my zeide how in Hungary the arrest of the Frierdige Rebbe made great waves despite the fact that they had no real knowledge of the Rebbe of Lubavitch. Here Reb Leibel Cywiak, famous askan for BMG, tells the Rebbe how he was told to say Hallel for the amud in a Gerrer Shtiebel in Warsaw in 1927, when the news of the FR's release reached them.

Monday, July 4, 2016

In recent months many have decided to ask the Nikolsburger Rebbe of Monsey, Reb Mechel Lebovits, for forgiveness for the heartache and suffering they caused him many years ago, back when he was banished from Satmar and his life made a living hell for no reason. The list of evils and injustices done to him are too long to enumerate here. At first the children of a famous Satmar Chossid who embarrassed him in public by publishing a vicious kuntres against him full of lies and hate came to his shul and publicly asked for forgiveness. Now, in recent weeks, two more have come, the last one saying that attributes his child's death (from SIDS) to the fact that he embarrassed and hurt the Nikolsburger Rebbe some 15 years ago.The only question that some are asking and that remains unanswered is why davka the Nikolsburger Rebbe has such a koach in himmel? Why when some of the same Satmar Chassidm attacked the holy Belzer Rov in public the heavens didn't tremble like this? What follows here is a report of what happened last Friday night at Nikolsburg in Monsey:

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